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arxiv: 0905.2493 · v1 · submitted 2009-05-15 · ✦ hep-ph · hep-th

Polarized DIS in N=4 SYM: Where is spin at strong coupling?

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keywords spincontributioncouplingflavorpolarizedstrongstructureangular
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Using the AdS/CFT correspondence, we calculate the polarized structure functions in strongly coupled N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory deformed in the infrared. We find that the flavor singlet contribution to the g_1 structure function is vanishingly small, while the flavor non-singlet contribution shows the Regge behavior at small-x with an intercept slightly less than 1. We explicitly check that the latter satisfies the moment sum rule. We discuss the `spin crisis' problem and suggest that at strong coupling the spin of a hadron entirely comes from the orbital angular momentum.

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